Word Meanings - UNPAINT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To remove the paint from; to efface, as a painting. Parnell.

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• PARNELLISM
  The policy or principles of the Parnellites.
• EFFACE
  1. To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin. 2. To destroy,
• PAINTING
  The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture. 3. Color laid on; paint. Shak. 4. A depicting by words; vivid representation
• PAINTER
  A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything. Totten. (more info) panthera, L. panther a hunting net, fr. Gr. ; painteir a net, gin,
• EFFACEABLE
  Capable of being effaced.
• PAINTERSHIP
  The state or position of being a painter. Br. Gardiner.
• PAINTED
  Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting. Painted beauty , a handsome American butterfly , having a variety of bright colors, -- Painted cup , any plant of an American genus of herbs in which the bracts are
• PAINT
  pictum; cf. Gr. many-colored, Skr. pic to adorn. Cf. Depict, Picture, 1. To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc. Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. 2 Kings ix. 30. 2. Fig.: To
• REMOVER
  One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
• PARNELLITE
  One of the adherents of Charles Stewart Parnell in his advocacy of home rule for Ireland.
• REMOVED
  1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
• REMOVE
  1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered
• EFFACEMENT
  The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.
• PAINTURE
  The art of painting. Chaucer. Dryden.
• PAINTERLY
  Like a painter's work. "A painterly glose of a visage." Sir P. Sidney.
• PAINTLESS
  Not capable of being painted or described. "In paintless patience." Savage.
• PAINTY
  Unskillfully painted, so that the painter's method of work is too obvious; also, having too much pigment applied to the surface.
• REPAINT
  To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.
• INEFFACEABLE
  Incapable of being effaced; indelible; ineradicable.
• OVERPAINT
  To color or describe too strongly. Sir W. Raleigh.
• UNPAINT
  To remove the paint from; to efface, as a painting. Parnell.
• DEPAINT
  Painted. Chaucer.
• INEFFACEABLY
  So as not to be effaceable.